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A Sales Lesson From An Adman

Posted March 9, 2014

A while back, I did some consulting for someone who owned an ad agency.

One day, we were having a discussion about ad copy when he told me something that hit home.

“Good copy, gently leads the right people by the hand, to take action, while shooing away the wrong people”

I’m wondering if we should modify that for our sales efforts to read . . .

“Our sales efforts should gently lead the right people to doing business with us while shooing away the wrong people”

Just a thought because . . .

You’re allowed to be picky too you know 🙂

Thoughts?

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